ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. ACADIA supports critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning, and building science, encouraging innovation in design creativity, sustainability, and education.

According to their website, The ACADIA 2014 – DESIGN AGENCY will bring together the spectrum of research and creative practice currently occurring within the ACADIA community through the combined support of the research networks of the University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles and Southern California Institute of Architecture. Questions the capacity for computation to inform or challenge traditional design processes; computation as design operation – the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power, and/or computation as design instrumentality – the design mechanism through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.

– 2014 ACADIA Society Award of Excellence : Portland Program Director & Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon, Nancy Yen-wen Chen.

– 2014 ACADIA Innovative Academic Program Award of Excellence : The Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Scott R. Marble.

Scott R. Marble – Courtesy of ACADIA 2014 DESIGN AGENCY Conference

– 2014 ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence : The co-director of the Doctor of Design Program and director of the GSD’s Technology Platform at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Martin Bechthold.